In yet another example of tax funds that can be cut from the budget, people who want to upgrade their homes at taxpayer expense are angry that the state isn’t taking your money and giving it to them.
That’s $280 million per year that is stolen from one set of homeowners and given to another. A married couple with two kids who make more than $27 per hour, can’t receive your money.
That budget money is $30 taken from each household in Florida. Just one program. How many more can be cut?
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Steve · July 22, 2025 at 6:12 am
There is plenty of funding for them, right?
That’s the attitude of the Gov’t minions. There is plenty of taxpayers available to fleece. Why are they complaining?
Sailor Paul · July 22, 2025 at 6:32 am
Well, since I spend 8-10 months a year at sea and work 100+ hours a week, I don’t qualify anyways, moneywise.
I can’t afford impact windows even so. Why. The F. Would I be ok with some trashbag New Yorker who retired at 45 from a hack nothing city job getting $10,000? While I kill myself slowly, far from home, and have to pay for his lazy ass?
F that program. Right in the ear. At highway speed. With a Peterbilt bumper.
I might be more amenable to subsidizing a northbound moving van for them, though, FL to NY/NJ.
@HomeInSC · July 22, 2025 at 7:46 am
I have felt stupid over the years for living within our means, saving, helping the kids get through school without debt, doing as much of our home and car repairs as possible, and just generally being fiscally responsible. When I see student loan forgiveness, Congress setting us up for inflation and banking “bail-ins”, and myriad other giveaways, I question my choices. At least I can tell myself that being debt-free and somewhat self-reliant prepares us for tougher times ahead.
My gardening projects are not up to expectations but then everything takes time. An account from which the principal is always being withdrawn.
SoCoRuss · July 22, 2025 at 10:50 am
So FLA doesn’t have any requirements for having homes be hurricane resistant?
Divemedic · July 23, 2025 at 5:32 am
Yes, but homes built before the mid 90s weren’t built to that standard
Dan D. · July 22, 2025 at 1:10 pm
Those poor victimized homeowners that didn’t get the money they were due, extorted from the taxpayers! Cry me a hurricane.
SoCoRuss · July 23, 2025 at 12:23 pm
I can understand helping low income local seniors on limited budgets but giving money to the Blue hive Yankees who come in and just have to have their way since they are sooo special and their last shithole say NY/NY was so great so all southerns must bow to them, fuck them.
Sorry for the rant I have a real issue with yankees that have infested the south….
Anonymous · July 23, 2025 at 12:40 pm
With home ownership comes responsibilities such has paying for maintenance and repairs. Unfortunately some people never learned that. Instead they learned selfishness, arrogance and laziness. I am embarrassed for their parents.
nones · July 24, 2025 at 4:42 am
This is/was similar to the rebates that the state was giving out 20 years ago for adding solar panels to your home.
Birdog357 · July 25, 2025 at 1:46 pm
Welcome to the Yankee argument. Every time a hurricane dicks over your state and FEMA rolls in, I have to pay for Florida’s shitty choices….
Divemedic · July 25, 2025 at 9:48 pm
Not the whole state, just the transplant Yankee millionaires that build mansions on the beach.
Birdog357 · July 25, 2025 at 10:15 pm
Remind me which hospital had 6 feet of water up against it?
Divemedic · July 26, 2025 at 7:01 am
Tampa General. They had no damage because it has a levee.
LargeMarge · July 29, 2025 at 12:49 pm
According to a chart on the long-running SurvivalBlog, my 1964 us$1.60 hourly wage is the equivalent of around us$28 in 2024.
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Anybody getting a minimum wage of us$11 or $13 or $21 is going backward.
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For comparison, in 1970 at 18yo, I owned my home, a ’67 Jaguar rally-racer with a Chevy 350 conversion, a ’58 Bentley drag-racer with a Chevy 454 conversion, plus a 1970 Harley Davidson.
I was a welder-fabricator, earning every nickel of my us$11.65 hourly.
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2024, I bid on a gig for fabricating surgical tools… us$300 hourly plus us$300 per diem.
They were happy with my hourly, but countered with us$250 per diem.
“Fine, I guess I can live with that…”, mostly because the shop is a short walk from home.
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